Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:26:56 -0400 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: dwilde1@gmail.com Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: swap space issues Message-ID: <E8763B97-2DB7-4C77-864D-08155168E352@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAEC73938Wjb5MHvLW36PdoAy_nso-tSN51AhUYydC6qxY99pog@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEC7391qs%2BA-jMpR1RyvR-BmnLyiksXHkQUjsGeePuEZJfMciw@mail.gmail.com> <20200625000410.GA10210@eureka.lemis.com> <CAEC7390VDxbYSY%2B4_fEaYxwdSPzbFWUVTdHw=vbAgq%2Bnmv09Vw@mail.gmail.com> <20200625025248.GB10210@eureka.lemis.com> <CAEC73938Wjb5MHvLW36PdoAy_nso-tSN51AhUYydC6qxY99pog@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 24, 2020, at 11:34 PM, Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> wrote: > Meant that I upgraded from 12.1-RELEASE to 12-STABLE. When I > configured the -RELEASE install, I manually messed with the MBR disk > partitions. This is nominally a half-TB HDD which showed up as a total > of 446 G available (IIRC, gpart should show it's actual size). I did > auto partitioning, looked at the sizes, and manually set my partitions > to give me 40G of swap instead of the auto-generated size of 4G. >=20 > This is an old Dell i3 laptop. It's really generic, picked > specifically as something I could use for Ubuntu or FreeBSD. Dell > SERVICE TAG is 5K8W162, but it's a generic i3 with 4G of RAM. I think I've missed in this thread where you said which FreeBSD arch you = are running: is it FreeBSD/amd64 or FreeBSD/i386? (With an "old" = machine, 4 GB RAM, and an install still using MBR, it could potentially = be FreeBSD/i386.) If it is FreeBSD/i386, there is a precedent for it having problems with = configuring large amounts of swap. However, it is usually related to = having relatively little RAM, too (large amounts of swap space means the = OS needs to use more RAM to keep track of it). Cheers, Paul.
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